Making English the language of the EU The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotia-tions, Her Majesty's govt. conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as ""EuroEnglish"". In the first year, ""s"" will replace the soft ""c"".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump …